Population-based incidence of sudden cardiac and unexpected death before and after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Iwate, Northeast Japan

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Niiyama, Masanobu ^a   Tanaka, Fumitaka ^a   Nakajima, Satoshi ^a   Itoh, Tomonori ^a   Matsumoto, Tatsuya ^b   Kawakami, Mikio ^c   Naganuma, Yujiro ^d   Omama, Shinichi ^a   Komatsu, Takashi ^a   Onoda, Toshiyuki ^a   Sakata, Kiyomi ^a   Ichikawa, Takashi ^e   Nakamura, Motoyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural University   (Japan)

^c IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Iwate Prefectural Ofunato Hospital   (Japan)

^e Morioka Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster; General population; Incidence; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARTHQUAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; TSUNAMI; AGE; AGED; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISASTER; MORTALITY; SUDDEN DEATH; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEATH, SUDDEN; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; SEX FACTORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84913542075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.114.000798     Document Type: Article

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